[Newspoetry] Big Hair Sighting in C-U! (fwd)

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Here's some more on the recent foray into big hair.
-Anne
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> At approximately 1:30 pm, CST, more than two dozen medical students
> were present at the sighting of what could only be described as "fucking
> big hair".  The owner of the hair, [name witheld], seemed unaware of the
> frightened murmurs and exclamations of her classmates during an otherwise
> uneventful group presentation on megaloblastic pernicious anemia.  Though
> we found most of her peers eerily unwilling to discuss what they'd seen
> (concerns included a fear that famous 80s band "the Bangles" might reform
> and start touring), we did find one lone med student willing to give his
> anonymous opinion.  And I quote:
> 
> "Sure, we've done plenty of reading about follicles and keratin and the
> sebaceous gland, but to SEE IT with your own eyes...it beguiles
> description.  I guess the best way of describing it to the layman would
> be: 'fucking big hair'.  If you know what I mean."
> 
> The big hair was unavailable for comment.
> 
> Demian 
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> "Thus, there is no escape; it seems that everything one does to earn a
> livelihood, to subsist, or for pleasure, turns out to be fattening,
> immoral, illegal, or - more disturbing - possibly carcinogenic."
> 
> -My absolute favorite quote from a medical textbook
>  ("Basic Pathology", 6th ed., by Kumar, et al.)
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